De, you are the one attempting to twist meaning. On a single word now ... "by". Criminy !!!
Not once, not twice, but REPEATEDLY you have resorted to using 'everyone who has a brain' agrees with this.
No they do not. And even if it were so (ie. a hypothetical), that is a completely facetious and meaningless rock upon which to build 'authority'. IT HAS NO WEIGHT IN A SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION - it is bad logic, and denigrates GOOD Science. The very common vernacular applied to that type of presentation of 'science' is 'Science by consensus'. So yes, I AM quadrupling down.
But you HAVE also now resorted, repeatedly, to attack by ad hominin - eg: 'you are smarter than that and are deliberately distorting' - that, sir, IS AN AD HOMININ - attack the person, not the argument.
Let it go, DE.
Quit attempting to use the 'consensus' stuff, especially when presenting what YOU consider to be 'good science'. A skunk by any other colour is still a skunk.
I was not sloppy, nor poorly communicating. You absolutely got the point, loud and clear, the very first time. There was NO sarcasm in my initial response, and none since. It was straight up confrontation of your method from square one.
It has been your choice to not believe that confrontation - to attempt to dismiss it as humorous, disingenuous, untruthful, or word twisting.
Accept it - meant every word of it, and enunciated every syllable quite clearly.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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